Participating Artists Press Agency
PAPA
Friday 24th of March 2023 – page 50
Lagos -
In every tourist guide about Lagos you can read about the ‘area boys’, gangs of men and boys who ‘own’ the place (unofficially). They supply services you have not asked for. For money. Games people play.
Adolphus Opara –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
Some plants and a notice on a piece of plywood. This way you can open up several shops and businesses at the same time. …
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
This is a cobbler, He does his trade on the streets looking for clients while walking.…
Tuoyo Omagba –
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Lagos -
This is a cobbler, He does his trade on the streets looking for clients while walking.…
Tuoyo Omagba –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
The five of us where just about leaving for Lagos Mainland when a group of artists/painters of trucks and busses arrived. AAF is running a project with these ‘grass roots’…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
Since the introduction of GSM in Nigeria almost everyone has a phone and you would find people making calls almost every where and almost all the time. Some at work…
Tuoyo Omagba –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
Hi sweetie no traffic at all. I'll come home soon.…
Eremina Jumbo –
Lagos Lab
Dhaka -
I am in a chic car on my way to the Independent University, where I am to give a lecture. It is Dhaka, Bangladesh and the traffic is stationery more…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos -
The mobile shopkeepers and craftsmen look so well dressed and clean. How do they do that? ‘This is a girl who is supposed to be in school but is out…
Tuoyo Omagba –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
You can read this on several houses in our street. It tells the story of a deceased person with many children who cannot agree on the legacy. To prefend one…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
Since the introduction of GSM in Nigeria almost everyone has several mobile phones, one for each of their four or five businesses. As they cannot be physically present at all…
Tuoyo Omagba –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
From nowhere young men in bright coloured shirts appear and start organising the traffic. Organising a way out for the boss?…
Eremina Jumbo –
Lagos Lab
Dhaka -
Within a fraction of a second they resume their professional doleful posturing. …
Lino Hellings –
Lagos -
My source of income being a street tailor. I make a musical rythm with my scissors to attrack customers while walking. You can invite me in your house…
Israel Ophori –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
It is the tradition here to place a keg (a small barrel of about 30 gallons) on a vehicle to show that it is for sale. Such a keg would…
Toye Gbade –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
Praise the lord is what you need in this mad traffic. Lino told us cars in Holland can have a sign of a fish on the back, meaning these people…
Tuoyo Omagba –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
You cannot see it so much but this building is an artpiece in itself. The tables, chairs, the bathroom floor; all the doors are genuine artworks.
It is a pleasure…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab
Dhaka -
Although the distinction is sometimes negligible, there are also traders who have something that actually resembles merchandise: children with nets of lemons, towels or bags of popcorn. When I…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos -
passion and craft on the street, my collegue Tuoyo recording a street businessman…
Israel Ophori –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
Bread hawkers in Lagos used to go around with butter or margarine; some people who buy the bread would like to have it cut in half with butter richly spread…
Toye Gbade –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
How many people fit on one motorcycle? Count it for yourself…
Israel Ophori –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
The photographer is Tuoyo, picturing a mobile businessman. The business man on the left is Toye Gbade. Tuoyo works as a free lance photojournalist. Toye works in a publishing company…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab